Any Witches Here? Part 12.

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Or Wiccans. or Pagans? Or anyone who is interested in a magical path or feels some magical stirrings.

A place for support, learning, swapping ideas and magical inspiration.

Hi brightyellow- sorry to hear your sad news.

I find this wesite quite useful for astrological information- cafeastrology.com/

If you are interested it may be useful to draw up your natal chart- takes seconds online an free, lots of websites offer it.

Then you can start learning about the nature of the planets, what retrograde means etc,the signs, the houses, and the conjunctions of the planets- ie the relative placement, which can cause harmony or disruption.
There are huge numbers of youtube videos too many explaining similar stuff. I wouldnt try to take it all on as a huge chunk though- astrology can get very complex, but just a few simple bits of information wil help your understanding.

Once you understand some basics then

That's the sort of thing I was looking for, thank you!

@BrightYellowDaffodil so sorry to hear about your friend As you say it's nice that you have reconnected with old friends as a result. This must bring a little bit of comfort.

Are you on Facebook? There's a couple of pages I know some of us follow which you may like.

https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulBohemia/

https://www.facebook.com/KirstyGallagherLunarLiving/

I've also bought Kirsty Gallagher's book recently. It explains the moon cycles in a really straightforward way.

Lunar Living: The Sunday Times Bestseller https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529398207/ref=cmswwrcppapiii_9KWMFbT8PTJWC

Evening just sitting listening to the wind and rain, glad to be warm and cosy. So it’s payday today and I want to treat myself to a little thing, last month I bought some crystals don’t know what I need this month??? I’m drawn to something silver and moon like?

Maybe some jewellery Kitty?

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sweetkitty
You could make some moon water? This Saturday is going to be a very powerful time, I bought some pretty glass bottles from a poundshop and will make some labels. Poundshops are also good for candles and craft stuff too.
Do you use herbs or essential oils in your practise? A new Tarot deck?

Some great links here, I am loving them! Fascinating you tube links on making sigils speakout.

Love the Kirsty Gallagher info too, I am checking that out.

This Saturday will be a great time for manifesting and setting intentions. I would be interested to know how you all go about this.

I'm intending to learn to make candles with an online course. I have been meaning to attend the workshop for a while, but now it has been cancelled for the foreseeable, the person running them has put the course online at half the price.

speakout I have used the cafe astrology site for years and found it really helpful.

I feel a Samhain directed to deep inner sshadows this year. My energy is at a low ebb, and disturbing dreams for the past few days have directed my to pay attention to the deepest parts of me this Samhain, to find ways to nurture myself at my deepest core.

I already feel myself moving at a slow pace, but being mindful of my needs, lots of herbal tea and simple nourishing food.
Samhain is usually such a lively time around here, familes and children in the streets, parties.
But as none of this can happen I will embrace the quiet.
Cleanse some crystals, make some moon water, a small blessing, and perhaps some Tarot work or making sigils.
A strange funk!!

Have a magical Friday sisters!

Hi, I am grateful for a quiet Halloween. Samhain.
This year is especially poignant. My beloved mum passed. And my beloved dog passed weeks earlier. I am struggling. We were/are very, very close and the loss is big. Really big.
I... Wanted to take the time to connect and to go back to a bit of witchery... As I have been so grief stricken that I have not practised much. Just yoga... Prayer. Pranayama. Blessings and gratitude.
But I think I'm finding it so emotional. I want my mum here. On this side. Healthy and smiling.
I'm having a bad couple of days. It will lift, I know.
I... Don't think it's that I doubt. I... Don't know what it is. Just miss my mum basically.
And my husband's mum ALWAYS seems to turn up at a time when I am planning on some witchery. Happened at autumn equinox last year. No matter how long it is... She always shows up on those times, or I have to postpone it and say to my husband.
I get very anxious about seeing her anyway. We are not close. And this time... Will be even worse.. As not even spoken to her since mum went, which was in May.
😢 Feeling.... Blue. Alone.

I'm sorry things are so tough for you and I'm sorry for your losses @Spiritwriter - may you find peace and healing (and a MIL-free zone)

@VioletCharlotte thank you for the links - I will have a look :)

@speakout I’m going to definitely try to make some moon water tomorrow and charge my crystals. The moon is beautiful tonight as the sky is clear hip it’s like it tomorrow. I could stare at the moon all night anyone else feel like this?

I had a quick look at the cafe astrology site last night and did my natal chart, even though I’m a sun in Leo and definitely am a Leo my moon is in Aquarius, I’ve always felt really conflicted, never feeling like I belong anywhere and to try to fit in I have to be something else. So so much of it rang true as I read it, very spooky.

My body feels very toxic right now, I’ve had a rumbling headache/migraine for days that I’ve been throwing down drugs for. So much of me aches and is so sore, my body feels poisonous

@Spiritwriter I am so, so very sorry you lost your mom. I hope you can light a candle for her. I believe an intentional light can guide them to where they need to be. I lost my mom around this time of year and I can sense the timing of it and I set out a candle on the front stoop for her every year on the anniversary of her passing, letting it burn down through the night. I hope you find a place to mourn her and to take care of yourself. Grief for our mothers is very deep and it can take a long time to come out of it. Please be patient with yourself - glad you are coming back for a bit of witchery as the rituals do help. I'm so sorry for your dear pup as well. I'm thinking of you.

Spiritwriter
I am sorry to hear of your loss. It is hard when someone so dear passes. Grief can wash over us like waves. When we are being hit by huge feelings it is all we can do to stay upright, and hold on. But it will ease- allow it to pass, between waves take time to make sure you are anchored, you have some soft landings.
With time things do ease, try to take comfort in that.

Blessed Samhain dear sisters!

Happy Samhain everyone.

I am not a frequent poster on this thread, but I have posted occasionally under various usernames and always lurk to see what's happening.

I hope you all have a peaceful Samhain however you are celebrating. Today's news of another lockdown has made me feel very anxious today, but I want to try and enjoy the day anyhow.

🎃

Full moon and Samhain blessings friends. I hope the shadows bring healing and a magical connection with other realms.
A wild and wet day here and I’m looking forward to playing in the shadows later. Wishing everyone a magical day

I quite like this perspective on the shadow self and agree that the darkness of the shadows is not about ‘bad’ or ‘evil’, rather anything that is not yet integrated into consciousness. I think there’s a ‘right time’ for each shadow to be brought to our awareness and that sometimes just acknowledging them is all we need.

“ The shadow should not be equated with evil, only with life that has been suppressed.

As such, the shadow is rich in potential. Becoming conscious of it makes us more fully human, more interesting. A shadowless person is extraordinarily bland and uninteresting. A willingness to allow our darkest impulses, as well as repressed creativity, to surface and be acknowledged is a step toward their integration. Negative shadow contents such as rage, lust, anger, etc., can be destructive when acted out unconsciously, but when consciously acknowledged and channeled they can provide new directions and new energy.

In concrete terms, the shadow will out, whether in unconscious acts, projections onto others, depression or somatic illness. The shadow embodies all the life which has not been allowed expression. It embodies all lost sensitivity, which denied, breaks through in sentimentality. It represents our creativity, which abandoned, locks us into ennui and enervation. It embodies our spontaneity, which suppressed, routinizes and stultifies our lives. It represents a life force greater than our conscious personality has yet utilized, and its blocking leads to diminished vitality.

-James Hollis from The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

Art by Brent Hollowell”

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Aerwyna

Such wise words.

NorthGirl2 Good to see you. I can sense the anxiety too, I have been out very early to do food shopping as I don't want to subject myself to the mass negative energy and panic that exists today.
Instead I plan a quiet day at home pottering, getting things ready for tonight, gathering vessels for making moonwater, setting out crystals for charging- and drinking lots of tea!

Samhain blessings sisters!

It’s wild and windy here this morning and my cats have decided to stay inside (wisely). They are black so I think they also like to show off their halloweeniness where humans will appreciate them!

I am sorry so many of us are facing struggles and spiritwriter my heart goes out to you on the loss of your beloved mum.

What strange times we are living in right now. I wish for Samhain to provide support, comfort, deep healing and a signal that the wheel is turning to lift us all.

I love all the talk of magical animals - so interesting to read of everyone’s experiences. I am fascinated by the way animals can slip so easily from the every day world into a much deeper and connected wisdom ... and then back again. My own wonderful companions (cats and a dog) are wise and magical in their own different ways ... and still manage to do daft things to ground themselves back in a less magical / dignified reality!

The discussion of motherhood is also full of wise words and perspectives for which I am very grateful - I have found them profoundly thought provoking. I did not experience great parenting as I grew up and i have often questioned my own ability to mother my wonderful DD so I appreciate all the thoughts you have all been kind enough to share as they help me shape my perspective. I’ve been lucky that my DD has always had a strong sense of what she needs so mostly I just let her guide me!

I would definitely say that becoming a mother was a huge attunement for me, and one which is still growing almost 9 yrs on.

My plans for today are a little jumbled but I want to cleanse my crystals, connect with my Tarot and I have an urge to ask this wonderful wind to blow through my house and clean it of the stress that has accumulated in the corners from the darkness of the pandemic.

We are also planning to have a no-lights evening tonight with just candles and firelight ... i think I’m more excited than my DD

Time for another cuppa and to contemplate the day ahead.

Wonderful friends, I wish you all a peaceful day and may Samhain help us all find a clearer way forward xx

I am feeling quite emotional, but balancing it. So, I will come back in more detail, but wanted to say thank you for your kindness and understanding. I am always anxious about my husband's mother coming and even more so now mine isn't here in this realm.
I am working on balance. And am cleaning and pottering and getting my samhain alter ready x

Blessed Samhain my sisters.
Yesterday and last night were difficult, but I have got up and dressed in my favourite every day witching dress. I am determined not to be watered down in my observation of the day by all the external pressure on me. I am choosing to see them as a sign that actually I need to more my true self than ever before.

My youngest son adores Halloween, so the day is equal measure here of pumpkins and spooky fun and my own witchy spiritual practice.

Samhain blessings everyone
It's wet and windy here too
I hope everyone has a good day/evening whether you have big plans or just a peaceful evening planned
Sending love and positive energy to everyone and especially those having a hard time at the moment. It's lovely that we have this corner of the internet to come and share our thoughts and support each other

Oh and I love the sound of your no lights evening ginismysaviour